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  The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff  30 January 1945 CLAIMED  the loss in the  sinking to be "9,343 men, women and  ESTIMATED 5000children". The Deadliest Disaster at Sea Killed Thousands, Yet Its Story Is Little-Known. Why? In the final months of World War II, 75 years ago, German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank The Wilhelm Gustloff before its first  departure in 1938 and after its test  in the Hamburg harbor  by the time the Soviet Union advanced on Germany’s eastern front in January of 1945, it was clear the advantage in World War II was with the Allies. The fall of the Third Reich was by this point inevitable; Berlin would succumb within months. Among the German populace, stories of rape and murder by vengeful Soviet forces inspired dread; the specter of relentless punishment pushed many living in the Red Army’s path to abandon their homes and make a bid for safety. The province of East Pru...

MV WILHELM GUSTLOFF ,GERMAN HUGE SHIP   SUNK BY RUSSIANS ON 1945 JANUARY 30 MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilians, Nazi officials and military personnel from Gdynia (Gotenhafen) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate,[3] 9,400 people died, which makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history. Wilhelm Gustloff  as a  hospital ship .  Danzig , 23 September 1939 History Germany Name: Wilhelm Gustloff Namesake: Wilhelm Gustloff Owner: Deutsche Arbeitsfront Operator: Hamburg-South America Line Port of registry: Hamburg , Germany Builder: Blohm & Voss Cost: 25 million  Reichsmark Yard number: 511 Laid down: 1 August 1936 Launched: 5 May 1937 Acquired: 15 March 1938 Identification: Radio ID (DJVZ) Fate: Requisitioned into the  Kriegsmarine  on 1 September 1939 Nazi...